Summer D'Amato

• Works with children between 2.5-4.5 years old in a play-based, Montessori, and Reggio Emilia inspired program. Creates and conducts a semi-academic, age appropriate curriculum that teaches children independence, emotional regulation, social understandings, and information about the real world. Keeps a regulated schedule filled with structured activities, 3 meal times, and nap time.
• Teaches children with a variety of backgrounds, and have experience working with neurodivergent toddlers.
• Builds strong relationships with parents, providing regular updates on student progress, and addressing concerns and achievements promptly.
• Monitored students' academic, social, and emotional progress and recorded in individual files. Collaborates with teachers and therapists to develop individualized educational plans for each student, ensuring optimal progress.
• Sanitize toys and play equipment each day to maintain safety and cleanliness.

• Used social media to engage consumers, respond to questions or complaints and promote company initiatives.
• Stayed up-to-date on social media and digital content trends to engage on trending topics and share best practices. Tracked performance of social content using native platform analytics, various social listening tools and regular reports to inform strategy.
• Produced videos by filming, editing and posting final creative.
• Conducted research to learn about trends, developments and perceptions about subject matter.
• Collaborated with internal departments to establish campaign objectives, completed tasks and identified and solved problems.

• Vacuumed floors and dusted furniture to maintain organized, professional appearance. Moved beds, sofas and small furniture to wipe down baseboards and removed dust and dirt from hard-to-reach areas. Emptied wastebaskets and disposed dirty linens in guest rooms to reduce the spread of germs and enhance freshness
• Interacted pleasantly with clients and guests when performing daily duties.
• Requested maintenance orders to fix non-working equipment and addressed room damage.

• Aid customers in designing unique framing for their art.
• Framed designs from cutting and building the frames to mounting, matting, putting glass on the pieces, and completing the designs.
• Was in charge of large corporate orders to make sure they're done in an assembly line fashion. Inspected every frame ordered to make sure it wasn't damaged and was the correct frame the customer wanted.
• Assisted in curating the gallery space and cleaning.
• Ran social media to keep the Portland community up to date on the shop.

• Established indoor and outdoor safe play environments for toddler-age children.
• Enhanced sensory abilities by giving children access to numerous textures and shapes.
• Taught creative crafts that incorporated nature and the seasons as they changed.
• Cleaned up after the children to insure a clean and safe environment.
• Met parents to discuss child behavior and academic progress.

• Walk throughout the city and pick up food from restaurants and deliver it to customers, while securing food to prevent loss, maintain freshness during transport, as well as plan delivery routes and the most efficient methods of distribution.

• Assisted the professor in a continuing education silkscreen class to help the students learn new screen print techniques, as well as prepared materials, and helped in demonstrations.

• Helped students while using expert printmaking knowledge to use the facilities, maintained cleanliness, and restocked the materials in the studio.

• Conducted food preparation ahead of time to promote efficiency.
• Helped customers create their individual pizza, from making the dough, down to cooking the pizza.
• Handled the cash register and money.

• Assisted Nona Hershey in teaching her introductory etching course.
• Helped prep the course materials, set up the equipment for students to use, worked with Nona during demos, and helped students throughout the class with questions.

Implemented up-selling strategies such as, recommending accessories and complementary purchases to boost revenue. Assisted customers with any help they needed, organize , and rearranged the boutique to create a fresh and new environment for the customers, while maintaining cleanliness.

Learned every menu preparation and numerous off-label drinks, to meet all customers needs. Prevented infections and maintained store professionalism by cleaning, sanitizing, and organizing the store space every few hours.

Planned and executed guest parties by organizing menus, spaces and special requests. Governed dining area with natural leadership talents and organizational strategies focused on balancing guest and business needs. Assisted staff with preparing for events, coordinating smooth execution to maximize guest satisfaction.